Managing upward: understanding your boss.

hat is upward management? Management is getting things done W through people, and upward management can be defined as getting things done through those who supervise us. This concept has been used effectively by the Japanese. Contrasting management in Japan with that in the United States, a Japanese economist said, Our system is rather like an electric train with each car having its own motor, whereas your system is more like a long train drawn by two or three strong locomotives with no motors in the cars. You tell your workers to follow. We like people to have their own motivation-and move together.’